Culture

All Stories
COVID-19
The Aquifer
Original Content
Angles
Climate
Culture
Education
Equity
Nature
Research
What If?
Work-Life
Africa
Asia
Caribbean
Central America
Europe
North America
South America
Oceania
From the Editors
Foreign languages

The Xylom

10 hours ago
7 min

I Thought Finland Was Home, but My Heart Said No

“When was the last time you saw a Finn on the television for doing something big?”. My answer was “never”.

2 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

5 days ago
10 min

What It Means to Be a Black, Indigenous, Latino

There is nothing more fragile in this world than a fragile White man—and that is, tragically, most of them.

251 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

May 18
4 min

Embrace the ‘ands’

How would I be able to juggle these different identities—graduate student, writer, and Puerto Rican— without one infringing upon the other?

763 viewsWrite a comment

Ahna Skop

May 14
32 min

Love in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the Serviceman

In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.

213 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

May 6
7 min

I Don’t Want to be Cassandra

“It’s just the flu,” they would tell me. These were people who had received higher education, some of whom even work in local hospitals.

88 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

Apr 30
7 min

My Home Is In The City Of Flowers

I was not a blooming flower, but a colorful mushroom, beautiful in its own right.

266 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

Mar 24
4 min

The Walls Will Fall One Day if We Keep Growing

“The Wall” — local people like to address it this way. To locals, the mere length or the grandeur of it does not ring any bells.

314 viewsWrite a comment

Nicole E. Félix

Jan 7
7 min

Blowing Away the Ivy Narrative

No way, this is a mistake. This email is probably directed to another Nicole. I’ll get a second email soon saying it was a mistake.

711 viewsWrite a comment

The Xylom

Dec 30, 2019
5 min

Luna Zagorac: On Cairo, Change, and Staying the Same

No sooner had I landed in Cairo after four long years of absence than I discovered my watch broke.

28 viewsWrite a comment

Nhat Hoang

Nov 30, 2019
10 min

I Got Kicked Out Of a Lab, and Three Lessons I Derived from It

...feelings of failure are physical. I threw up my dinner that night, I could not stop crying, and my body would not stop trembling.

239 viewsWrite a comment

{"items":["5efbf492f5c977001780cfca","5ef8c51c59bca80017d0b437","5ebad26fa61572001723b54b","5eb43ab329a29100172dec8c","5eae007d667025009b462798","5ea79a92c89a3600c76b2d9f","5e795d561fbab8002d6c1b60","5e13df0adc02e80017eaaf57","5e8568bed4d1a00035519894","5e856c950062ad001607dcfb"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":940,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":16,"galleryMargin":0,"floatingImages":0,"chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCubeRatio":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":false,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"useCustomButton":false,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryHorizontalAlign":"center","galleryTextAlign":"center","galleryVerticalAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"expand","fullscreen":true,"allowSocial":true,"allowDownload":false,"allowTitle":true,"allowDescription":false,"loveButton":true,"loveCounter":false,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","scrollDirection":0,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowTitleExpand":true,"allowDescriptionExpand":true,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxHeightMode":"AUTOMATIC","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"textsVerticalPadding":0,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"titleDescriptionSpace":6,"customButtonText":"","customButtonBorderWidth":1,"customButtonBorderRadius":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":0,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":940,"itemBorderColor":{"value":"rgba(197, 197, 197, 0.75)"},"galleryLayout":2,"modifiedGallerySize":true,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":940,"galleryWidth":972,"galleryHeight":1440,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}

THE XYLOM

I Thought Finland Was Home, but My Heart Said No

What It Means to Be a Black, Indigenous, Latino

Embrace the ‘ands’

Love in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the Serviceman

I Don’t Want to be Cassandra

My Home Is In The City Of Flowers

The Walls Will Fall One Day if We Keep Growing

Blowing Away the Ivy Narrative

Luna Zagorac: On Cairo, Change, and Staying the Same

I Got Kicked Out Of a Lab, and Three Lessons I Derived from It

Unit #2031, 925B Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309

(678) 871-9245

thexylom@gmail.com

Privacy Policy

This disclaimer informs readers that the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed belong solely to the author, and not necessarily to the author’s employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.

©2018-2020 by The Xylom.